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recently done, Mexico will be able to supply the United States with 

 most of the tropical products now consumed and not yet produced 

 here, and even with others, that would find a market if they could be 

 cheaply transported. 



The same difficulties which prevented us from having correct ac- 

 counts of our public revenues and expenses, and which I have stated 

 in speaking on that subject, made it very difficult for many years to 

 have correct statistics of our imports and exports. 



Imports. I could not give even a tentative statement, which I 

 could vouchsafe, of our total imports and exports from 1821 to 1867, 

 but the statement of the receipts of our custom-houses from 1823 to 

 1875, which appears on page 145 gives an approximate idea of our 

 imports, considering that the receipts amount to about from 50 to 60 

 per cent, of the value of the imports. 



I append a detailed statement of the imports and exports in Mexico 

 during the years 1826, 1827, and 1828, and the total imports and exports 

 during the year 1825. 



From the fiscal year 1872-1873 our Statistical Bureau began to 

 make its reports, and I have concised them in the three annexed state- 

 ments comprising most of those years, up to the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1896. The commodities are divided in their respective classes in 

 accordance with the different schedules of the tariffs then in force. 



MEXICAN IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM 1826 TO 1828. 



